Boo Radley
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Interesting way to look at it. I always felt it was up to the company to decide what they thought was reasonable pay for a position and it was up to the person to decide if they thought that was their true value. If the two don't match there are choices to be made by both.
To a point that is true. But the advantage shifts. It favors the employee when there are other places competiting. And it favors the business when there isn't. Largely it is good when one has too much of an advantage. But what I tried to point out is that the only way to bring them back is to seriously change how we live. We will have to resemble the countries they are out sourcing to. A friend of mind, a very conservative person, calls it the Mexicanaizing of America. Unless the pednulum shifts back toward the worker, we will see the standard of living shrink even more. I merely argue this isn't good for us as a country. I wish I had a magic solution to the problem. But we should not pretend that something like taxes or any simple solution will reverse the trend.